--- title: Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be so bold, lay but your hand again upon he… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be so bold, lay but your hand again upon her, and I shall take so stern a pledge as, wist ye, shall dismay your heart, an it cost me my life. Who acts: ye, evil knight, heart. 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Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, evil knight, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:4:99 # text = Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be so bold, lay but your hand again upon her, and I shall take so stern a pledge as, wist ye, shall dismay your heart, an it cost me my life. 1 Quoth Quoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lay lay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 stern stern VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pledge pledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 wist wist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 31 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 dismay dismay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 iobj _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye | | | | | bold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | again | upon wise; your hand *conj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon she=Destination | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | that evil knight *= knight* | | | | | | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 4 | **stern** *in a quote* | infinitive | that evil knight *= knight* *not said here* | a pledge | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wist** *in a quote* | present | | ye | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **dismay** *in a quote* | shall | | your heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | | 7 | **cost** *in a quote* | past | heart | my life | that evil knight *= knight* | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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